Character Image Direction

Goal

Create high-impact base character images for a mature romance dating game. Each image should communicate the character's age, personality, body type, fashion sense, sensual appeal, and romantic tone at a glance.

Baseline Prompt Rules

Solo adult woman, clearly 19 or older.
Full-body standing key art, vertical composition.
Main direction: premium semi-realistic Korean dating-sim key art with cinematic lighting.
Use realistic light, fabric, and space, but keep idealized illustrated faces, polished skin rendering, and clean character silhouettes.
Pure photorealism is now a style test only, not the target.
Mature, attractive, unmistakably sensual fashion and body language.
No nudity, explicit sex act, fetish framing, school uniform, childlike styling, or ambiguous age.
No text, logo, watermark, extra characters, or busy background.
Use generous margins so the character can be used as a standing portrait asset.

Quality Checklist

An image passes only when all of these are true:

The character clearly reads as an adult.
Outfit, pose, expression, and silhouette match the character brief.
Even shy or pure-hearted characters still carry visible adult sensual charm through styling, posture, and lighting.
Body type is distinct from the rest of the cast.
Face is appealing, stable, and not uncanny.
Hands, legs, and feet have no obvious anatomy errors.
The asset works as a base standing image in a character screen.
Resolution is high enough for production review, or the asset is marked as a draft for upscaling/regeneration.

Cast Variety Targets

Avoid making every character the same face, height, pose, and body shape.
Rotate visual tone: warm, shy, sharp, glamorous, mature, athletic, artistic, elegant, casual.
Use fashion to signal route identity before the player reads text.
Keep sensuality character-specific: shy routes should feel quietly irresistible, career routes sharply confident, public-image routes glamorous, and mature routes restrained but intense.

Current Asset Notes

assets/characters/han_seoyun_v1.png: current preferred semi-realistic style target.
assets/characters/yu_harin_v1.png: accepted semi-realistic base image for the shy bookstore route.
assets/characters/kang_mirae_v1.png: accepted semi-realistic base image for the sharp career route.
assets/characters/style_references/semirealistic_main_reference.png: user-approved reference for the target look.
assets/characters/style_tests/han_seoyun_photoreal_test.png: useful pure-photoreal comparison, but no longer the main direction.
assets/characters/style_tests/kang_mirae_photoreal_test.png: useful pure-photoreal comparison, but no longer the main direction.
assets/characters/style_tests/yu_harin_photoreal_test.png: useful pure-photoreal comparison, but no longer the main direction.
assets/characters/style_tests/han_seoyun_semi_realistic_test.png: earlier semi-realistic comparison candidate.
assets/characters/style_tests/yu_harin_semi_realistic_test.png: earlier semi-realistic comparison candidate.

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